Throwback Thursday and Nora Kaye
Nora Koreff was born on January 17, 1920 in New York. She
began her training at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School and at age fifteen
she joined the Met’s corps de ballet. When Ballet Theatre (now ABT) was formed
in 1939, she joined them. Her name had now been changed to Nora Kaye. Also
during the 1930s, she danced on Broadway in several musicals.
Her first dramatic role was in Antony Tudor’s Gala Performance in February of 1941. In
April 1942 she danced the role of Hagar in Tudor’s Pillar of Fire and established herself as one of the great dramatic
ballerinas.
In 1951 she joined New York City Ballet, appearing in Jerome
Robbins’s The Cage and Tudor’s La Gloire. She also appeared again on
Broadway, and then returned to American Ballet Theatre. In 1959 she married
Herbert Ross and they established a company called Ballet of Two Worlds.
In 1961 Nora Kaye retired from performing and in 1964 was
named assistant to the director of ABT. In 1977 she and her husband produced
the movie Turning Point, and later,
the film Dancers.
Nora Kaye died on February 28, 1987 in Los Angeles.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Dance History Factoid #67:
“Nora Kaye was an American dramatic ballerina.”
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of the Day:
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep
your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein
― Albert Einstein
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